Where have I been??? Sorry for going AWOL. I ended up sick, then had some computer issues. But now both it and I are back up and running. Plus, I have a ridiculous post coming with plenty of pictures of the mess that is going on while I try to get ready for M Polish’s…

Another playoff week, another Packers mani! This time with watermarbling and glitter placement. It is gaudy, but full of team spirit! I’m pretty pleased with how my pinky marble came out. But the index got a bit muddled. That’s okay…practice, practice, practice!! I didn’t take a what-I-used…

Happy Thursday! I’m here with a quick post about the Bestie Triplet Chalkboard Nails I did! Warning – Sappy content ahead: I feel exceedingly lucky to have stumbled into the little piece of internet nail heaven where I met @ineedamani and @thedotcouture. The ladies I have met are wonderful enablers, insanely supportive, and ridiculously talented.…

Nails by Megatuce

Hi there! I’m sure everyone is gearing up for New Year’s parties tonight, but I’m going to share my peacock gradient mani and then I’m hitting the sack! At least, that’s the plan. In reality, I’ll probably get side-tracked looking through blogs and IG then BAM!! It’ll be midnight and I’ll be exhausted all day tomorrow again. Totally worth it.

So, enough jabbering. Here is my peacock mani:

I’m a fan of this one. So much so that I forgot to take a picture of what I used. But I will fill in the details as I go.

First, I started with one coat of OPI’s My Boyfriend Scales Walls just to lay a foundation. MBSW is one of my favorite nail art bases, because it isn’t a stark white. I think it usually provides a nice contrast. Here, though, I covered it up. It looked like this before I covered it:

When I don’t cover it, I always use two coats. It is (obviously) not a one coater.

Once MBSW was dry, I sponged on a gradient of OPI Yodel Me On My Cell and piCture pOlish Moscow:

I use a damp non-latex make-up sponge to create my gradients. This one looks a little wonky in some places, but since I was stamping over it, I wasn’t too concerned.

I added the peacock stamp using Messy Mansion plate 14 and my own polish is Apricot.

This is topped with a coat of Seche.

Apricot has made the initial cut and will likely head out to my testers for their opinions soon. So it is possible this one may be headed for my first release, but I’ll probably switch the name up!

Well HI! It has been far too long since I’ve written. I have good reasons…sort of. Between the general hubbub of life coupled with the holidays, I also started creating prototypes for my upcoming stamping polish line. Want a sneak peak? Of course you do!

My daughter got into it tonight, so the bottles are a bit of a mess, but that is some of what is kicking around. I have about two dozen prototypes I’m narrowing down for release. I put a few of my prototypes into action on tonight’s New Year’s Eve Mani:

Tangent alert: my line will be called M Polish. My husband suggested it as a joke, but it really works. My initials are MP. It kind of works!

Back to the mani. Here’s how I started:

One coat of OPI MBSW. I just put that down as a base before I started the gradient:

So, yeah…that doesn’t look like the base of the mani I posted above, does it? Nope…nope it isn’t. I was going to use vinyls on this mani, but I am not a patient person. I did not wait nearly long enough before putting my vinyls down and they pulled up the polish underneath. ALWAYS wait for your polish to be COMPLETELY dry before you lay your vinyls down. Yes…I yelled that. I know that rule, but I always break it.

So, the mussed polish came off. I was in a rush to finish, so I failed to take pics as I went, but here’s what I did: I laid down a base of El Porto, then created the black and white gradient using El Porto and Willa.

Once I replaced the mussed nail with a black and white gradient and topped it all off with Seche. Of course I failed (again) to take a pic. But once everything was dry enough, I moved on to stamping. I used my own black stamping prototype for the clock. The index and pinky are using my white pearl prototype. I used a gold and silver prototype on my middle finger. Everything was topped off with Seche.

And…you may have noticed in my supplies pic that my lightbox is a little jacked up. Yeah…that happened while I was MIA too. My son and his favorite dinosaur did this:

My DIY lightbox is a styrofoam box. My son and his dinosaur went all Godzilla on my box. It is an absolute mess. I had picked one out to buy, but I think I am going to wait until we move and I have a dedicated space for my materials. Until then, a new box is waiting in the wings and as soon as I get the time, it will become my new light box!

So, that’s what I’ve been up to! I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season and has a fantastic New Years! Thanks for stopping by and I can’t wait to talk to you again soon!